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The sharing of our images

There has been quite a bit of work going on behind the scenes here at Vancity Filming Towers to find a solution that works for everyone in regards to people using our images. Over the weekend we found many sites posting our photographs without permission. I just wanted to let people know exactly what was going on.

Over the weekend we sent out some DCMA Takedown requests to various Tumblr sites who we found using our images without obtaining our permission. This all happened because of a Tumblr blog that I found who had removed my copyright notice from an image of Colin O’Donoghue that I had taken.

Vancity Filming and Technology

I’ve always liked to think that I use the best technology that I can afford to do all of the work that goes in to running this site.

The camera I use is a Nikon 5100 with a couple of lenses. An 18-55mm and a 55-200mm. The camera takes some pretty good pictures that are nice and clear, but I tend to downgrade the quality for the website because of people stealing my images and bandwidth and posting them on Tumblr and their own sites.

Vancity Filming: Our stance on spoilers

Spoilers… Either you love them, or you hate them. There’s hardly ever a third option when it comes to them. Vancity Filming is aware that the majority of visitors to this website love them, but there are also a few who don’t.

I’ve been meaning to address this issue for a while now, but keep putting it on the back burner in order to bring you more pictures and set reports. But I have never forgotten about it.

Photography in public places: Know your rights

Everyone has a camera built in to their phones these days which means that more people are taking pictures. So it’s good to know what your rights are.

As a basic rule of thumb, if you are in a public place and can see it, you can take a picture of it.

Streets and Parks come under public spaces, so you’re good to go.

A new hashtag for locations only #yvrfilm

This is something I have been discussing with some people behind the scenes as it is clear to everyone involved that the #yvrshoots hashtag is no longer effective at getting information out to people.

What I propose is that everyone uses the #yvrfilm hashtag from now on to post locations only. No links to websites, pictures or anything else would be put on the hashtag. #vancityfilming is fifteen characters and #yvrshoots is ten characters long, both including the # symbol. #yvrfilm is eight characters long.

Vancity Filming downtime

Vancity Filming experienced some technical difficulties this last week, as you may have noticed.

We like to keep you informed of what is going on with the website as much as possible and not keep you in the dark about things. In December, we decided that we had outgrown our hosting company and made the choice to move to a VPS solution. VPS, for those of you that don’t know is Virtual Private Server. It’s like a remote computer that has all the software we need to run VCF on it.

Like what we do? Have you considered donating?

We’ve added a PayPal donate button to the website now. It’s on the right hand side above the advertisment.

Many of you will wonder why we’ve done this. Many of you won’t care either way.
The truth is, camera equipment is very expensive. I started this website as a hobby 202 days ago taking pictures with just my iPhone and a Sony point-and-click camera. The pictures weren’t great, so the next logical step was to get a better camera.

Vancity Filming now has forums

Some of you may have noticed that there’s a new button on the top of the page next to the home button. Yes, we now have forums on the site.

This is the second time that I’ve added forums to the website. The first time I did it, I hadn’t put much effort into it and just plonked then on a subforum of the website and hoped that they’d get used. They did get used, but by the wrong sort of people. This website is about filming locations, pictures and set reports. I have no idea why people would think that it was a place to post about selling gold and buying sneakers.

Colleen Bradford at it again

Some of you may remember this post from way back in November of last year. This was when Colleen Bradford first came to my attention.

Colleen called me a “douche pap” on that occasion and alleged that I had spoiled any chances that any of the fans that were there had of meeting any of the cast. Remebmering back to that night, it was really cold, but Robert Carlyle and Emilie De Ravin both came out to meet all the fans. Read the post for more insight into that matter.